Bengaluru start-up offers drone solutions

A city-based drone data solutions start-up, Huviair, was one of six teams to showcase their disruptive business ideas at the Demo Day of the Boeing HorizonX India Innovation Challenge held in Bengaluru on Monday.

Huviair, which specialises in custom, unmanned aircraft services and software solutions for survey and workflow management, had helped the government of Somaliland in conducting aerial land survey of its capital city Hargeisa, in 2016, carrying out zoning the city to help in collection of property tax.

“Unmanned Aerial Systems can be used to solve problems plaguing infrastructure projects. It can help in speedy execution of projects,” said Vikshut Mundkur, CEO, Huviair. Huviar aims at refining custom unmanned aircraft services and software solutions for survey and workflow management.

Merxius and ZestIoT were the two other Indian start-ups. While Merxius has developed a product that enables the creation of extended reality (XR) environments to save cost and reduce training time in aerospace manufacturing, ZestIoT explores solutions that connect the airport and airplane ecosystem using Internet of Things (IoT) to optimise ground handling at airports and improve on-time performance of airplanes.

Drone Aggregator, from Boeing Engineering Center, was a fourth team and plans to host a drone aggregator app. “The app will be a platform to choose who (drone service provider) is the best. It will also host weather details as to when to operate the drones and details on drone regulations,” said Veeresh Kumar Masaru Narashimalu of Drone Aggregator.

The other two teams, from the Boeing stable, are End of Life and MPro. Boeing said that it will continue to collaborate with the three external start-up teams to help further their businesses. A city-based drone data solutions start-up, Huviair, was one of six teams to showcase their disruptive business ideas at the Demo Day of the Boeing HorizonX India Innovation Challenge held in Bengaluru on Monday.

Huviair, which specialises in custom, unmanned aircraft services and software solutions for survey and workflow management, had helped the government of Somaliland in conducting aerial land survey of its capital city Hargeisa, in 2016, carrying out zoning the city to help in collection of property tax.

“Unmanned Aerial Systems can be used to solve problems plaguing infrastructure projects. It can help in speedy execution of projects,” said Vikshut Mundkur, CEO, Huviair. Huviar aims at refining custom unmanned aircraft services and software solutions for survey and workflow management.

Merxius and ZestIoT were the two other Indian start-ups. While Merxius has developed a product that enables the creation of extended reality (XR) environments to save cost and reduce training time in aerospace manufacturing, ZestIoT explores solutions that connect the airport and airplane ecosystem using Internet of Things (IoT) to optimise ground handling at airports and improve on-time performance of airplanes.

Drone Aggregator, from Boeing Engineering Center, was a fourth team and plans to host a drone aggregator app. “The app will be a platform to choose who (drone service provider) is the best. It will also host weather details as to when to operate the drones and details on drone regulations,” said Veeresh Kumar Masaru Narashimalu of Drone Aggregator.

The other two teams, from the Boeing stable, are End of Life and MPro. Boeing said that it will continue to collaborate with the three external start-up teams to help further their businesses.

Demo Day, Boeing HorizonX India Innovation Challenge* l It is a three-month accelerator programme, where six teams were chosen from more than 100 ideas and applications

* 30 subject matter experts from Boeing and T-Hub mentored them and exposed them to potential customers, while strengthening their offerings and capability